The
second volume of Chicago/ The blues
yesterday brings to your attention two little known blues artists plus the
early works of the great bluesman Eddie
Campbell who has recorded such masterpieces album like King of the Jungle (certainly one of
the best LP to come out from Chicago in the 70's), Let's pick it or his recent Delmark effort Spider eating preacher

I've had the great pleasure to meet
several times Eddie when he was living in Europe, touring with the very good French
blues band of Tao Ravao featuring harmonica ace Vincent Bucher. A great
gentleman and a fantastic showman, Eddie was also very friendly and willing to
share recollections of his musical career, drawing striking sketches of the
Chicago blues scene. The three singles he did for the tiny Hawaii label in the
late 60's are very hard to find and have (to my knowledge) never been reissued
anywhere in any form. One of this 45 feature Eddie with the mysterious singer
Yvonne Gomez.

Little
Wolf (born Jesse Sanders 26 June 1930 in Florence, Ms) was altogether a
Chicago police officer for 47 years while singing the blues in the Windy City
clubs. Married to Howlin' Wolf's niece Diane, Jesse brought the attention of
Willie Dixon who was trying to find new talents for his fledgling Yambo label.
Rebaptized by Dixon Little Wolf, Jesse recorded the modest hit but striking
blues The wolf won't howl no more after
Howlin' Wolf's death. This single was then featured on a whole album that I
bought directly at Willie Dixon's small Chicago office. I don't think this fairly
good album (featuring such luminaries as Buster Benton, Johnny B. Moore and
Billy Branch) has ever been distributed outside Chicago. It has been said that
Jesse made also another album for Bobby Rush which is very hard to find (thanks to Pierre Monnery who located one copy of this!). After his retirement from the Chicago
Police Department, Jesse Sanders relocated in Memphis where he made some public
appearances. It is not known if he is still alive.

Little
Larry Hudson is an almost complete unknown. A singer and guitarist, he
seems to hail from Des Moines, Iowa where in the late 60's he recorded a single
for the very short-lived Success label. A few years later, he was performing in
Chicago (generally with the L.C. Roby band) and waxed another 45 in a much more
Soul-oriented style.

your blog is like a dream come true - Love blues-music but am from Europe so it's amazing to be able to dig this deep into this music... would never have heard or even known about most of the stuff on your blog if it wasn't for all your hard work...thank you so much